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Supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Kicked the daylights out of US forces at Kasserine Pass, Tunisia 1943. His swansong in Africa before he left Africa for good.
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Erwin Rommel
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Vichy France. Collaborationist. Executed in 1945 by the Free French.
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Pierre Laval
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Russian city. Besieged by German forces for 900 days.
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Leningrad
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The 2nd SS Panzer Division had this added title.
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Das Reich
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Commanded First US Army. Hurtgen Forest. Aachen. Remagen.
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Courtney Hodges
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SS troubleshooter. Fort Eben Emael. Mussolini rescue.
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Otto Skorzeny
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Stalin, Roosevelt and the brandy-swilling, cigar chomper met at this place in the Crimea. 4 - 11 February, 1945.
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Yalta
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The fireside chatterbox and the British Empire imperialist who all babies look like issued a joint statement in Newfoundland proposing their plans for a post-war world. 9 - 12 August, 1941. What did it become known as?
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Atlantic Charter
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The Russian Army was also known as this.
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Red Army
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German, Italian and Hungarian forces invaded this country on 6 April, 1941.
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Yugoslavia
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This battle was a costly failure for US forces in the Italian Campaign. 22 January, 1944 - 4 June, 1944. A beach landing near this town.
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Anzio
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Codename for the Battle of Normandy beginning 6 June, 1944.
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Operation Overlord
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The most infamous of the 2nd SS Panzer Division's regiments. The 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment. Oradour-sur-Glane and Tulle massacres. Many more atrocities in Russia. It had this added title.
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Der Fuhrer
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Generalfeldmarschall. Old, honourable Prussian soldier from a long military tradition. He did not indulge in atrocities. He just turned a blind eye to the work of the Einsatzgruppen in his rear.
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Gerd von Rundstedt
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US Brigadier-General. Lawyer. Lead counsel for the prosecution at the 12 Nuremberg trials after the first trial when the biggies swung at the end of a rope. Anti-Joseph McCarthy. Anti-Vietnam War. Honourable man.
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Telford Taylor
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The fireside chatterbox.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Most famous Russian tank.
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T-34 (Tee Thirty-Four)
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Field Marshal. Commanded the 6th Army until he suffered a fatal heart attack. A committed Nazi. I forgot to add his name to my quiz about evil, Nazi bastards. Will do. He ordered his men to co-operate with the einsatzgruppe working in his rear. His men lent a helping hand at Babi Yar, Kiev.
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Walter von Reichenau
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At the outbreak of WWII the Polish army consisted of nearly 10% of these cavalrymen.
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Uhlan
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German-American admiral. Became a big wheel in the USN. Whilst an ensign he ran aground the destroyer Decatur on a mudbank in the Philippines in 1908. He didn't check the tide tables of the port.
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Chester W. Nimitz
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Most famous Japanese fighter plane.
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Zero
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German army high command. The German abbreviation, if you please.
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OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres)
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A top Nazi in the early days. He flew to Scotland in May, 1941 in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 to negotiate a peace with the English before the sheet hit the fan for Germany in the land of the vodka-swillers. Hanged himself in Spandau Prison in 1987.
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Rudolf Hess
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